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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven: By Twelve Only.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week were the recommendations published from the College of Physicians?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Tuesday.

2. What state refused to allow a ship from Philadelphia to land and take on water?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Delaware.
(d) New York.

3. What newspaper was printed occasionally by September?
(a) National Gazette.
(b) Philadelphia Chronicle.
(c) Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
(d) Federal Gazette.

4. Where did John Bill Ricketts take his circus for the summer?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Salem.
(d) Georgia.

5. Where did Jones and Allen discover a house where the mother was dead, the father was dying, and the children were huddled together, frightened and hungry?
(a) Main St.
(b) Water St.
(c) Emsley's Alley.
(d) Beckett's Allley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did physicians call the tiny reddish sores that erupted on individuals who had the plague?

2. How many times a day did Charles Willson Peale fire a musket inside his house?

3. Where was a Philadelphia woman and her black servant tarred and feathered?

4. A few days before being called to care for Catherine LeMaigre, which doctor had lost his daughter to the same fever?

5. Besides the mayor, how many members were on the illegal special committee formed to run Philadelphia?

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